

Posts tagged “KeeperRL”

This One’s A: KeeperRL Greenlit, Development Extended

It used to be standard procedure to celebrate the milestones of development for games you were looking forward to: announcement, going gold, getting released. Now I find myself celebrating the indefinite delay of those milestones. KeeperRL is an "open-source dungeon simulator inspired by Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress" which has been in-development for some time and was due to be finished before the end of…

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We’re Going Underground: KeeperRL

If someone has made a game that mixes Dwarf Fortress with The Sims, I haven't played it yet. I really want to play it though. Instead of mountainhomes and goblin raiders, there would be suburbs and plagues of hipsters. The beautifully ugly dive bar on the corner is reconfigured into a barista training school, where the only skill taught is 'nonchalant superiority'. People would still…

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Spike The Earth: KeeperRL Alpha

Every morning, my inbox contains at least one email pointing in the direction of a less complicated and/or complex Dwarf Fortress. There was a time when I believed in the dream of an approachable Dwarf Fortress with a friendly interface but I'm starting to think that even the slightest simplification invalidates the comparison. Dwarf Fortress is complexity, of simulation and control, and the games that…

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